Endless Rapture
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Aram Bakshian [...] provoked a summer squall here in Washington by suggesting, in a book review for NATIONAL REVIEW (which Mr. Bakshian egregiously titled "Two Cheers for Rape'), that something politically unacceptable was going on in the imaginations of American women. The ungovernable appetite for lurid romance novels (women purchased $300-million worth of them last year), Bakshian concluded, reveals something about feminine fancy he had "long suspected but would never have dared publish.' Mrs. Hazen, the heretical author, dared to assert that women fantasize about being ravished -- preferably by a duke or marquis and best after having been surprised skinny dipping past midnight."[1] |
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Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance and the Female Imagination (1983) is a book by Helen Hazen which deals with rape fantasy.
Blurb:
Demonstrates how feminism as an intellectual discipline has taken the wrong approach and examines the underlying passion that links feminists and readers of romance fiction
